These files report the results from an expert survey on issue positions and issue salience of German parties in Decemeber 2017.


File: questionnaire_393844_de.html

The file shows questionaire used


File: expertsurvey.csv

The file contains the data in plain text format (utf-8 encoding).

Variables:

n == observation number
id == respondent ID
lev == type of value (pos = party position on issue, sal = party salience of issue)
party == party (cdu=Christian Democratic Union, csu=Christian Social Union, spd=Social Democratic Party, fdp=Free Democratic Party, gru=Alliance90/The Greens, afd=Alternative for Germany, npd=National Democratic Party)
econ == economy
soci == social
immi == immigration
envi == environment
bild == education
euin = European integration
lire == left-right
expe == expert's closeness to party

